The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-04-07

Here is some political information

Here is some political information
''The first conscientious Congress met
in Philadelphia And, perhaps. the last
n Con gress is divided into civilized. half
| civi iz..l, and savage"
Und the head of literary blunders, W,
have ,ese:
| ''Truth crushed TO earth will rise again,
as follows:
| ''The Constitution of the United States
is that part of the book at the end which
nobody reads"
This takes one in a sudden and unex
pec!ed way:
Republican, a sinner mentioned in the
Bible.''
Here is homely illustration
| 1--WE should endeavor to avoid extremes
/ like those of wasps and bees"
''HOner wrote Homer's essays, Virgil
and Paradise Lost
"COttOn Matheis invented the cotton
| gin and wrote history"
"Oliver Wendell Holmes know that
this boy meant to pay DR.. Holmes :om-
pliment-''is a very profigate and anus
ing writer"
With this, amidst a roar of laughter,
Mark Twain grabbed up his manuscript
and ran off the stage, and DR.. Holmes
joined in and enjoyed the laughter as
much rs any one else.
Professor Norton then introduced Dr.
Holmes with the following:
Fifty years ago last summer there
was an astonishing scene in the meeting
house at Cambridge. A STRIPPING, who but
a few months before had watched Glenn
ence AS she tripped away from him down
the Rue de Seine, stepped forward on the
platform, before a crowded audience, to
deliver Phi Beta poem which he had the
audacity to cram full of genuine poetry,
not the sham article usually provided for
such occasions. He had actually inserted
in it that ringing lyric which everybody
knows by heart:
lay, tear her tattered ensign down." etc.
The muse had said to this boy Thou
shalt redress the lack of two lea centu-
ries, and all the pent-up wit, and humor
and fancy of two hundred years shall find
vent in thee AS the youth went on with
his po' m the stiffest lip relaxed. the dull
lest hands found themselves clapping.
"Et ingenti sonneunt omnia plausu'
And mighty praise all round about was
heard
The applause bursting through the win
dOws and doors of the meeting house, was
taken up outside, and for fifty years, when
ever the same voice has been heard, has
iuu, SdtucEluk Ou, cCLOIuS dtlu
till to-day we catch it up with plaudits
fresh as ever, triumphs fresh as ever. as
l speak the name of Oliver Wendell
Holiness"
Genial DR.. Holmes
was enthusiastically greeted, and said, Il
will venture to read two selections, if it
will not take too much Of your time. The
first will he the 'Chambercd Nautilus, and
the second you will find out presently" ;"
The second piece was Dorothy" which
he read after giving an interesting sketch
of its origin. His face was very express
sive during the reading. He threw himself
wholly into the piece, and this bright and
sparkling man made his hearers beside
themselves with delight
After Mrs. Jul Ward Howe had read
three of her poems,
DIR. Edward Everett Hale
recited The Great Harvest Year" As
his tall figure with its STOPPING shoulders
appeared behind the desk, he was greeted
with round after round If applause. He
has been preacher at Harvard for part of
the year, and all of us here have learned
to love him. He says that the old boys all
want to be friends to the young boys, for
it makes them young again.
s'The Story OF a Bad Boy.''
Mr. T. B. Aldrich was introduced, and
after acknowledging the applause that
greeted him, announced his selection, and
began to read from his famous ''StOry of
Bad Boy" He played with the buttons
on his coat, and nervously and constantly
shifted his weight from one foot to the
other, reminding one of a schoolboy at a
Friday evening "speaking." His voice
coul. hardly be heard in the back of the
room, though they that sat near enough
to hear him seemed to enjoy his reading.
Col. T. w. Higginson read next. HIS
selection was from Vacation for Saints, :"
and he was followed by
Mr.. William Dean IJOwells,
who read an extract from the "Wedding
Journey" showing the husbands growth
in experience of his brides character. He
stood in a natural manner, put on his eye
glasses very deliberately, and read in Il
simple way.
Hon. George W lillian Curtis
then read from, the '.Potiphar Papers"
Mrs. Potiphar's letter to Miss Caroline
PettitOes. He was followed by
James Russell Lowell,
who read one of Longfellow's poems in a
very sing-song way. He succeeded much
better in the recii alton of his own ''Ode
to H. W. L. on his Fiftieth Birthday" Mr..
Lowelrs trousers looked as if they had just
been pressed in the English style, and he
seemed very particular about his dress
The reading showed that even great men
cannot do all things we'll.
COLLIER COBB